roman a clef
Example Sentences
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Did he then turn “Atticus Pünd Takes the Case” into a kind of roman a clef?
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020
Still, at least some of the backlash seems attributable to that same roman a clef fact.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2015
In my complete adolescent self-absorption Beckett was less a human being than a character in a thinly-veiled roman a clef about me.
From Time • Jan. 11, 2012
Wells’ 1910 roman a clef, “The New Machiavelli,” calling the Webbs’ salon a “center of reference for all sorts of legislative proposals and political expedients.”
From BusinessWeek • Sep. 8, 2011
The name of Joe Klein, author of the celebrated roman a clef about the Clinton presidency, Primary Colors, itself published anonymously in 1996, has also been in the frame.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2011
